Waiting for the call, he plays them in his head.

The whole episode played in my head as I was reading.

Finally I get tired of that and play records for myself in my head.

It has been playing in his head for half a century.

I've played it all over in my head so many times.

She didn't know why what he'd said earlier played back in her head at just that moment.

For nearly two hours, murder didn't play in her head.

I wondered how many times she'd played the scene in her head.

He told her all the songs that played in his head.

This was not how the scenario played in his head.